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German Presents, Jewish Pasts

The Politics of Ancient Judaism in 19th-Century Germania
 

Next week, CRASSH will be hosting a seminar on 19th-century biblical scholarship and theology – the second of the Andrew W Mellon Foundation-funded project Religious Diversity and the Secular University.

For more details, see the official announcement.

The Program

Thursday 15 February 2018 09:45 - 10:15

Registration

 

Tea and Coffee available

10:15 - 11:45

Session One

Ruth Jackson (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)
'On Schleiermacher' [title TBC]

Respondent: Geoff Dumbreck (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge),
 

11:45 - 13:00

Lunch

13:00 - 14:30

Session Two

Zachary Purvis (University of Edinburgh)
Two Hearts in One Breast: Schleiermacher’s Academic Theology and Its Consequences

Respondent: Giles Waller (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)

14:30 - 15:00

Break

15:00 - 16:30

Session Three

Alexandra Zirkle (University of Notre Dame)
Academic Homiletics and Secular Rhetoric

Respondent: Ayla Lepine (Westcott House/University of Essex​)

Friday 16 February 09:15 - 10:45

Session Four

Reinhard Kratz (University of Göttingen)
Myth and History in German Biblical Scholarship of the Nineteenth Century

Respondent: Nathan MacDonald (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)

10:45 - 11:15

Break

11:15 - 12:45

Session Five

Ronald Hendel (University of California Berkeley)
Textual Criticism of the Hebrew Bible and the Problem of Judaism: Abraham Geiger, Julius Wellhausen, and the Failure of Academic Dialogue

Respondent: David Friedman (Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge)

12:45 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 15:30

Session Six

Paul Michael Kurtz (Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge)
From Texts to Text: German Science & the Philological Apparatus

Respondent: Marieke Dhont (British Academy/Leuven/University of Cambridge)

This project is generously financed through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 749628.